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A BETTER COUNTY THROUGH IMPROVED FARM PRACTICES Volume five TRENTON, N. C. Thursday, August 13, 1953 Number 14 Jones County’s Biggest Tobacco Herbert Jones Over-Plants Tobacco Allocation By 30.3 Acres; Now Must Pay $7,726.50 Penalty on Overage • If Jones County’s Biggest to bacco farmer this year had managed to get away with what he was trying to do, he would perhaps have done a good bit to ward' holding the per-acre to bacco yield of the county up to Its past high levels in spite of the July/ drought. Herbert Jones, Pink Hill bus inessman and Kinston auto dealer, who is Jones County’s holder of the largest single to bacco allocation, tried but he failed and as one consequence of his effort he’ll have to pay the Federal Government a $7, 726.30 fine. On the several farms that Jones owns in Jones County there was a total tobacco al location of the 1953 crop year of 180.3 acres and,early this year when Raeford Blizzard made the first check of these plantings he reported a total of 195.1 acres, which was not viewed as a very large over-planting on such a large allotment and Jones agreed readily to cut down the 4JB acres which that first meas urement indicated him to .be ov ’ er planted. This whs only a Scattering tenth of an acre or a little more on the various ■' ifchat .er Recently, however, Jones Coupty PMA officials had some reason to believe that those first check figures were a lit tle off and so a spot checker, with an official of the State PMA office along with a repre sentative of Jones went back over the Jones holdings and on this second going-over they found that to spite of Jones hav ing cut down 4.8 acres he still had housed 220.6 acres of the golden leaf, which made him 30.3 acres overplanted, even aft er the token cutting down of 4.8 acres earlier to the year. Caught ‘‘with the goods” and with practically all of the tobac co housed Jones was faced with two Alternatives: To destroy the Continued on Page 8 Crowded Docket Awaits Civil Term Of Superior Court In Jones County Judge Paul Frizzelle of Snow Hill will convene a one-week civil term of Jones County’s Superior Court Monday, August 17th and although there is more than enough work on the long neg>ected civil, calendar to oc cupy a full week of court it is not considered likely that ay causes docketed will be tried. Nine divorces and 20 other "ivii actions are listed on thr calendar. The divorces will be tried on the opening day of the court and the couples seeking to be legally spilt asunder are Catherine P. Humphrey from Earl Humphrey, Minnie Berry Primage from George R. Brim age, Willie Hill from Mary Lee Hill, Margaret Lane Pigott from Thomas Pigott, William Jarman from Kathleen Jarman, Velven Banks from Lenwood Banks, Bett Brown Laslter from Alvin Earl Lassiter, J. L. Murphy from Josephine Jordan Murphy and Eunice Mills Pore from John A. Pore . Jurors summoned to serve during the week include Sam Phillips, Bromo Spivey, Harper Andrews, Jesse Thomas, B. C. Gtdy, Arthur Mallard, C. M. Gray, Jr., Wayne Haskins, Earl Faulkner, Charlie R. Stilley, Clem Jenkins, Robert Gerock. Randolph Pelletier, Hugh Oli ver, L. L. Ogden, Raymond Har rison, Luby Collins, Luther Cox. Jr., W. G. Mallard, C. A. Battle; Alva B. Howard, Preston Mer cer, Carl Arthur, D. E. Taylor, Randolph Ballard, iPneston Banks. Jack Blizzard, Ralph Hadnot, Elza Smith, George Dixon. B. C. Brown, Burch Smith, L. T. Mal)ard, Ray Boyette, Williams Simpson and Eddie Andrews. Le view The city council is still hav ing trouble trying to find en ough members to fill out the Zoning Board of Adjustments and Appeals. Last Monday night Hardware Man Bob Orady was named to a twice refused vac ancy on the board and later in week Orady jerked his hat out of the ring and decided to have no part of this extremely hot seat that was warmed for him by some other folks who stepped out and left the seat still smok ing. Grady said, “No Thanks.” Already Hardware Dealer Bill Dixon and- Heal Estate man Russell Foster had declined the seat. Friday afternoon Bob Gibbs, a linesman working with the N. H. Hanes Company of Ashe ville, was coining down from a pole in Pink Hill where his company is installing high volt age lines for Carolina Power and Light Company when he accidientally struck a 110 volt line and the jolt was enough to knock him off the line and to the ground some 20 feet below. He is under treatment for a fractured wrist and possible in ternal injuries. On August 16th formal ded ication ceremonies will be con ducted at Holloway Memorial Park’s new swimming pool. The pool, of course, has been open for more than a month but in the rush to get it open, the formalities were skipped in or Farmer Gets 'Caught’ This Big Tobacco Crop Was Legal The 1953 crop year in. many parts of the Khuston trading area has not been a good one, but on Troy Fescue's farm In tones County, aside front a lit tle hail early in the year, this picture is prtetty good evidence that a good "tobacco crop was enjoyed there. The stalk which Mr. and Mrs. Foscue hold above is nearly 12 feet tall and 22 leaves had been pulled from it with the scat tering tip leaves still left. The Foscite farm Is part of the Old Stanley farm in the Baskins Chapel section of Jones Coun ty. Foscue gays he had a three acre tract in which every stalk would average as high as the one pictured above. (Polaroid Photo in-a-minute by Jack Rider.) der to get the folks Into the pool and splashing about but Recreation Commission officials announced this week that a formal program would be held on August 16th after which the pool and its facilities will be opened to the public for an in spection tour. This long await ed and long needed Negro pool is the nicest swimming pool in -the state at present, since it has the very latest equipment of the most modern design and has the best filtering equipment that money could buy. Vice Recorder Harviey Turner of Pink Hill, presiding over Re corder’s Court while Judge Al bert Cowper is on vacation, passed out a two year prison sentence Thursday to Frank Foscule for stealing several auto radios and a quantity of tools from Dick Parker’s garage in Sparrowsville, handed another 90 day road sentence to Florine Blackman Brooks for cutting Guy Dixon up pretty badly one afternoon last week and Alfred Green drew another of those 90 days sentences for violation of of the driver’s license act. Continued on Page 8 fooler Water-Conditioned; Rooms no Higher above Captain Joe fireman Sammy in the parapet laroid Photo-in-a-minute by Jack Rider.) In recent months there has been considerable air-condi tioning around the city hall in Kinston. For some years now the sleeping quarters of the fire department have been fanned by a big exhaust fan which makes the slumbers of the fire men easier in the hotter part of the year. The police station also has enjoyed for a number of years the benefits of an exhaust fan that sucks a lot of air through the station house and makes life more comfortable during the stinky, sweaty summer days. This spring the utilities de partment broke out in the first cooling system and in short or der the city clerk’s office fol lowed suit with cooling instead of fanning. Also this summer the court room of the city hall has been made more habitable with the addition of two exhaust fans in the ceiling and shortly on the heels of this installation, which did Court Clerk Nell Warren little good, she broke out with an individual air-condi tioning unit, out of her own pocket for her office. Captain Joe Hailey, of the fire department and Fireman Sam my Manning noticed, however, that in all of this “fanning, fool ing and cooling” nobody had made a move toward the “cool er,” the name sometimes applied to the city jail, but not a name of very apropriate nature in the summer months when the low, flat roof of the jail makes it anything but a “cooler.” With the approval of some of the higher echelons around the city hall, Hailey and Manning set about cooling the “cooler.” The village drunks and other occasional visitors to the city jail owe a debt to those two en terprising firemen, who thought, “It’s bad enough to be in jail without, smothering from the heat too.” A half-inch water line long enough to go around three sides of the flat jail roof was ob tained, or “accumulated” as the firemen say, and tiny holes were drilled In it at about two-foot intervals. With these holes drilled the pipe was was install ed and connected to the reg Contlnued on Page 5
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